Pro Bono

Paul, Weiss is committed to providing impactful pro bono legal assistance to individuals and organizations in need across a broad range of constitutional, civil rights and other public interest matters.

Community Partnership Helps Seniors

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Since January of 2011, Paul, Weiss lawyers have assisted
qualified low-income senior citizens to apply for the Senior
Citizen Rent Increase Exemption (SCRIE) program. This New York City
program allows low-income seniors age 62 and older to freeze their
rent at its current level. Once approved for the program, all
future rent increases are paid by the city to the landlord in the
form of a property tax abatement.

To date, Paul, Weiss and a corporate client have staffed 19
clinics at the Lenox Hill Neighborhood House's two senior centers.
95 people have attended the clinics and 78 applications have been
submitted on their behalf, with 48 applications approved. Paul,
Weiss lawyers and paralegals have spent over 250 hours
helping our clients obtain this financial assistance.

January 31, 2012

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The New York Timeshighlighted Paul, Weiss’s leadership in a court-ordered effort to find parents deported by the Trump Administration and to reunify families in an article on law firms’ intensive pro bono immigration efforts.

Firm Chairman Brad Karp and Litigation Department Co-Chair Robert Atkins published an op-ed in the New York Law Journal, “Democracy Itself is On the Ballot,” that sounds the alarm on threats to the integrity of our election process.

Pro bono counsel Emily Goldberg and litigation counsel Steve Herzog were featured in an article focusing on NYU alumni at the firm who are on the front lines of the battles over U.S. immigration policy.

Firm chairman Brad Karp, alongside Gary Wingens, chairman and managing partner of Lowenstein Sandler, co-authored an Op-Ed for The New York Timeson the current immigration crisis at the border with Mexico.

Sunday’s New York Postfeatured a story on the “potentially precedent-setting case” that Paul, Weiss and The Legal Aid Society are litigating on behalf of dozens of formerly homeless individuals who obtained private apartments through …

An article posted to The Daily Beast on
October 3, titled "Doctors Said They Shook Their Baby to Death.
They Didn't," recounts the story of a young black couple in the
Bronx wrongfully accused of murdering their infant…

The Huffington Post published an account by 15-year-old Hudson Garner of the preliminary injunction hearing held in the Southern District of Mississippi on November 6th in which Paul, Weiss sought to enjoin Mississippi from enforcing…

This video examines how Paul, Weiss and its client, Disability
Advocates Inc. (now known as Disability Rights New York), helped
adults with mental disabilities build new lives by securing a
landmark settlement with the state of…

On July 1, 2014, certain substantial changes to New York
nonprofit law will take effect, and will require compliance by all
nonprofit organizations incorporated in New York, as well as
certain nonprofit organizations doing…

The American Lawyerhas placed Paul, Weiss fifth in its annual “A-List,” which ranks firms based on their revenue per lawyer, pro bono commitment, associate satisfaction, racial and gender diversity, and the percentage of female…

The American Lawyerhas ranked Paul, Weiss third in its annual “A-List,” which ranks firms based on their revenue per lawyer, pro bono commitment, associate satisfaction, racial and gender diversity, and the percentage of female…

Paul, Weiss was recognized among Law360's 2015 Pro Bono
All Stars. The award is presented to firms that have demonstrated a
very strong commitment to pro bono work and dedicated substantial
resources to high-impact cases crucial…

Maria
Vullo was given the 2015 Humanitarian Award by the
Interfaith Nutrition Network (INN). The INN operates a network of
soup kitchens on Long Island and provides emergency housing and
social services. Maria was honored…

Litigation partner Maria Vullo was honored by A Better Balance:
The Work and Family Legal Center with its Distinguished Corporate
Citizen Award. Maria was recognized for her career-long pro bono
work in support of women and…

Attorneys and paralegals from Paul, Weiss's Washington, D.C.
office coached a team of students from Anacostia High School in the
43rd Annual D.C. Street Law Mock Trial Competition. The competition
included 32 teams from 14 D.C.…

The Paul, Weiss Washington, D.C. office was recognized at a
breakfast organized by the D.C. Circuit Judicial Conference's
Standing Committee on Pro Bono Legal Services for having 40 percent
or more of our lawyers dedicate at…